Petroleum Exploration Review for the Gippsland Basin, Australia

A review of petroleum exploration in the Gippsland Basin up to February 1976, providing an assessment of the basin's knowledge and exploration potential. The document describes the basin's geology, containing up to 4500 inches of sediments, and its status as Australia's most prolific petroleum basin with initial reserves exceeding 300 million cubic meters of oil and 200 billion cubic meters of gas. The data originates from Geoscience Australia and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Assessing historical exploration activity and knowledge gaps based on the review's temporal scope up to 1976
• Evaluating basin geology and sediment thickness based on the described 4500 inches of fluvio-deltaic and marine sediments
• Analyzing petroleum reserve estimates based on the reported initial reserves of oil and natural gas
• Studying exploration potential at deeper horizons based on the discussion of seismic mapping challenges

Strengths

• Provides specific reserve estimates: over 300 million cubic meters of oil and 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas
• Includes concrete geological details, such as sediment thickness of up to 4500 inches
• Offers a defined temporal scope for the review, covering exploration up to February 1976

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Review of exploration activities and geophysical data

Time Range

Up to February 1976

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 01:37:49.036815; freshness should be verified

Geography

Gippsland Basin, offshore northeastern Bass Strait, Australia